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Easter Bunny Pound Cake Recipe
Fun Easter Bunny Pound Cake Recipe perfect for Easter Sunday brunch or anytime of the day.
Prep Time
12
minutes
minutes
Servings
12
Author
Tammilee Tips
Ingredients
1
lb
Butter
softened
3
C
White Sugar
6
large eggs
4
C
All Purpose Flour
¾
C
Milk
1
Teaspoon
Almond Extract
1
Teaspoon
Vanilla Extract
Several droplets of pink food coloring.
Instructions
-Beat butter at med speed with an electric mixer until creamy. (Look for a light yellow color.)
-This may take 1 to 7 minutes.
– add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy. (The butter will turn to a fluffy white.)
-Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until yellow yolk disappears.
-Next, add your flour to the creamed mixture. First the flour follow with your milk. 1 C of flour to ¼ C of milk ending with your last C of flour.
-Beat at a low speed after each addition. If lumps remain gently stir with a rubber spatula.
-Gently stir in the extracts.
-Divide your prepared batter in half.
-Add a few drops of pink food coloring to one half.
-Blend in the pink food coloring to ensure even coloring throughout the batter.
Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick spray, Pour/spoon the pink tinted batter onto the prepared cookie sheet.
-Bake your batter on the cookie sheet for 1 hr.
-Test it with a toothpick to ensure that it is done.
-Set this aside to cool.
-Measure that your bunny cookie cutter fits within your loaf pan for height and width.
-After your pink batter has cooled use your bunny cookie cutter to make your bunnies for your loaf pan.
-Treat your loaf pan with baking spray or grease and flour.
-Now pour about ⅓ of your batter into the bottom of your loaf pan.
-Gently stand your bunnies in the middle of the loaf pan. Hold them steady until they will stand on their own.
– Gently fill the sides of the pan by spooning the batter into the pan.
-After the sides are filled gently spoon additional batter on top of your bunnies.
-Continue to spoon additional batter on top until it is even.
-Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hr and 40 min.
-Check to ensure that your loaf is done by inserting a toothpick. If it comes out clean then your pound cake is done.
-Cool on rack for 10-15 minutes.
_Remove from pan.
-If it is difficult to remove run your knife between the edges of the cake and pan to loosen.
-Cool on your wire rack until completely cooled.